| Zusammenfassung: | Abstract In 832, the Frankish emperor Lothar I promulgated a capitulary in the royal palace of Pavia („Hlotharii capitulare Papiense“) confirming selected chapters of the capitularies of his predecessors Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. These chapters are mostly cited verbatim, but some (chs. 3, 12, 13) seem to have no equivalent in earlier capitularies and are therefore usually considered to be new provisions by Lothar himself. The article focuses particularly on ch. 13 containing provisions for the office of notary. It includes a clause that has been interpreted as a prohibition against notaries in the service of counts writing charters outside their own county. This article argues for an alternative interpretation: that the chapter aims only to ensure that transfers of property certified by notaries are always certified in the region in which the property is located. Moreover, the chapter very likely refers to a decree by Louis the Pious of 818/819 („Capitula legibus addenda“, ch. 6). It thus emerges that ch. 13 of the „Capitulare Papiense“ does in fact take up a provision by Lothar’s predecessors, and the same can be suggested for ch. 12. According to the latter chapter, unfree people are ineligible to attain their freedom based on the 30-year term of Roman law if one of their parents was unfree. This coincides largely with a known provision ascribed to Louis the Pious in the „Liber Papiensis“, which has not hitherto been connected with Lothar’s capitulary. It can thus be considered the model, adopted and slightly modified by Lothar, for ch. 12. These new findings make it highly probable that ch. 3, for which no source has yet been identified, also repeats an older provision of Charlemagne or Louis the Pious, now lost.
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